Training: 5ks and Rain

Another week of training in the books. Despite not racing, I had good workouts. To be honest, I haven’t hated “not racing” recently.

I’ve enjoyed waking up, running my own 5k, and getting on with my day. I still show up, work hard, but in the comfort of my own time. There haven’t been a lot of races lately locally anyway. Recently, I haven’t particularly wanted to drive 90 minutes round trip. I haven’t been feeling it.

Monday:

.1 outdoors/easy 60 minutes treadmill

Tuesday:

Easy 60 minutes

Wednesday:

6X800 with 400 jog in between

Thursday:

Rest

Friday:

Easy 60 minutes

Saturday:

5k (20:01) 6:37, 6:21, 6:26

Sunday:

Long Run (14 miles)

Thoughts:

Last Monday, I was in Albany. We had gotten some snow overnight. When I lived in NYS, I ran outdoors before, so I wanted to be “badass” and run outside again. That was a terrible idea, and it ended like this:

A post shared by Hollie (@fueledbylolz) on Feb 18, 2019 at 11:18am PST

The rest of my daily runs were easy. Nothing of note.

Workout Wednesday: 6×800 averaging 6:10 pace with 400 jog in between.

I wanted to get a good 800 workout in. When I started running there was no snow, but it looked like it may snow. In the end, the snow was coming down hard, and there was a lot on the ground. By the end of the day, we had a good 3-4 inches.

As far as the workout, I felt decent. My legs still don’t feel like they have a lot of pep, but they don’t feel bad either.

A post shared by Hollie (@fueledbylolz) on Feb 20, 2019 at 12:38pm PST

Lonely 5k: (20:01) 6:37, 6:21, 6:26

I had other plans this weekend to run the Frostbite 5 Miler. Things changed and driving 90 minutes round trip wouldn’t fit in, so I ran at home. I’m not entirely sure my watch didn’t pick up, and I ran a little long, but that’s ok.

Long Run: 14 miles at 8:13 pace

It was pouring rain, 45 degrees. The East Coast racing favorite! On paper, 8:13 pace doesn’t seem that “fast,” but I negative split and had a quality run all around.

Thoughts:

In all, I had a good week. I’m not racing as much, but I don’t mind. As I look more into the Spring, I’ve realized this might be more of a stepback season for me. I’ll still run and race, but I’ll see where it takes me.

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